Error in documentation

OK, I have applied the following patch to clean up the Solaris problems
you reported.

Hi guys,

Just noticed an error in the 7.1.1 developer docs.

In the Admin Guide, in chapter 3.3 "Starting the database server" it
says :

***

On Solaris, edit the file rc2.d to contain the following single line:

su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data"

***

This is BADLY WRONG and won't work at all.

Instead the person installing PostgreSQL needs to create a startup
script as /etc/init.d/postgresql, then create a soft link from
/etc/rc3.d/S[00..99]postgresql that script.

The script though, can use the su command given above.

i.e.

echo 'su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data"' > /etc/init.d/postgresql
chmod 744 /etc/init.d/postgresql
chown root:sys /etc/init.d/postgresql
ln -s /etc/init.d/postgresql /etc/rc3.d/S10postgresql

I haven't tried looking at the documentation .sgml source files and
creating a patch, but if you guys want me to, I guess I could figure it
out.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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Hi Bruce,

Yep, that should work fine. :-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Bruce Momjian wrote:

OK, I have applied the following patch to clean up the Solaris problems
you reported.

Hi guys,

Just noticed an error in the 7.1.1 developer docs.

In the Admin Guide, in chapter 3.3 "Starting the database server" it
says :

***

On Solaris, edit the file rc2.d to contain the following single line:

su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data"

***

This is BADLY WRONG and won't work at all.

Instead the person installing PostgreSQL needs to create a startup
script as /etc/init.d/postgresql, then create a soft link from
/etc/rc3.d/S[00..99]postgresql that script.

The script though, can use the su command given above.

i.e.

echo 'su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data"' > /etc/init.d/postgresql
chmod 744 /etc/init.d/postgresql
chown root:sys /etc/init.d/postgresql
ln -s /etc/init.d/postgresql /etc/rc3.d/S10postgresql

I haven't tried looking at the documentation .sgml source files and
creating a patch, but if you guys want me to, I guess I could figure it
out.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

--
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was less competition there."
- Indira Gandhi

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Index: doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -c -r1.63 runtime.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml   2001/05/04 23:11:37     1.63
--- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml   2001/05/07 15:53:22
***************
*** 254,264 ****

<listitem>
<para>
!       On <productname>Solaris</productname>, edit the file
!       <filename>rc2.d</filename> to contain the following single line:
<programlisting>
su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"
</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
--- 254,267 ----

<listitem>
<para>
!       On <productname>Solaris</productname>, create a file called
!       <filename>/etc/init.d/postgresql</filename> to contain the following
!       single line:
<programlisting>
su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"
</programlisting>
+       Then, create a symlink to it in <filename>/etc/rc3.d</> as
+       <literal>S99postgresql</>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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